Klaus-Peter Müller (born 16 September 1944 in Duppach, Germany) was chairman of the supervisory board of Commerzbank until the annual general meeting on 8 May 2018. Career Klaus-Peter Müller is the son of Peter Müller, a former voluntary mayor of the city of Düsseldorf. After finishing his apprenticeship at the bank in Düsseldorf (1962–1964), he completed military service (1964–1966) in a number of roles, for example as a reserve officer candidate at Radio Andernach, the radio station of the Psychological Defence Force (). He finished his military service with the rank of First Lieutenant of the Reserve. Müller joined Commerzbank as an employee in 1966. He worked in the bank's Düsseldorf branch from 1966 to 1968 before moving to the New York branch, where he worked from 1968 to 1973. In 1973, the bank appointed him manager of the Düsseldorf branch and from 1977 to 1982, he took on the role of co-manager of the Duisburg branch. He then went on to work as the co-manager of the branch in New York from 1982 to 1986. In 1987, Müller was appointed as the chief representative and head of the core division for corporate clients in Frankfurt. He worked in this position until February 1990, when he took on the role of head of the central division for rebuilding former East Germany. Müller became a member of the Commerzbank board of managing directors on 1 November 1990, and was made the spokesman of the board on 25 May 2001. He moved to the supervisory board on 15 May 2008 and was replaced by Martin Blessing as chairman of the board of managing directors. On 17 January 2007 Klaus-Peter Müller was awarded the title of honorary professor by the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. At the award ceremony, the former president Roman Herzog gave a speech in his honor. In the same year, Klaus-Peter Müller and major general Wolf Langheld, Commander of the First Armoured Division in Hanover, hosted the first forum calling for an intensification of cooperation between business, politics and Germany's armed forces. The patron of the event was the former minister-president of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff. Klaus-Peter Müller is committed to upholding the principles of the social market economy. In 2008, Müller succeeded in the role of chairman of the government commission for the , also known as the Commission for Good Corporate Governance, which was established by